prayers go out to the millions of people affected by this devastating storm." Even in a nation regularly beset by earthquakes‚ volcanoes and tropical storms‚ Typhoon Haiyan appears to be the deadliest natural disaster on record. Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines on Friday and quickly barreled across its central islands‚ packing winds of 147 mph that gusted to 170 mph‚ and a storm surge of 20 feet. Its sustained winds weakened to 83 mph as it crossed the South China Sea before
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Eastern Airlines Facing Bankruptcy In 1986‚ Eastern Airlines was in desperate trouble. The fourth quarter of 1985 had shown a $67.4 million loss‚ and financially experts had told Frank Borman‚ president and chief executive officer‚ that the airline had three choices: 1) a 20 percent pay cut for all union and noncontract employees. 2) Filing for Chapter 11 (bankruptcy) or 3) Selling the airline. On February 23‚ 1986‚ Eastern’s board of directors met to decide the
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CHALLENGES TO THE DEMOCRATISATION OF POST-COMMUNIST NATIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE Outline Background..................................................................................3 Elements of Modern Democracy.................................................4 Inherent Problems in Pre-Communist History.............................5 Problems of Post-Communism....................................................6 Political Challenges................
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Pasig Catholic College Grade School Department S.Y. 2012-2013 Karen Chrys Jobelle B. Lusterio 6-Diocese of Virac 1) Popular piety refers to religious practices that arise and occur outside of the official faith. Typically the term is used within the context of the Catholic Church forms of popular piety can be seen from as far back as Ancient Rome when the people would practice pious exercises to their goods‚ family and homelands.
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Festivals The tradition of the fiestas/festivals is a tradition handed down from the many Spanish religious practices. Most fiestas are celebrated among patron saints and or the major events in the life of Jesus Christ and His Mother. Sinulog The Sinulog is an annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City and Maasin City‚ Southern Leyte‚ Philippines. The festival commemorates the Visayan people’s pagan origin‚ and their acceptance of Roman Catholicism. The main feature is
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problem of the study A devastating typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines has unexpectedly given young traffic accident victim Mario Renos hope that he could one day walk again. Hit by a motorcycle while walking to school months before Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the central islands‚ the 13-year-old’s shrivelled legs are taking their first steps to recovery at a Red Cross tent hospital put up in Basey town. "I want to go back to school‚" said Renos‚ gritting his teeth
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Introduction: The Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus Carolinensis) is the very common‚ NOrth American Squirrel. It is found in a great variety of woodlands‚ parklands‚ suburban‚ and even urban areas (Pennsylvania State University‚ 2013). The Eastern Gray squirrel’s primary food is “mast‚” more commonly known as nuts of forest trees. Eastern Gray Squirrels will also eat almost anything given to them with the exceptions of meat‚ though there have been a few cases reported of cannibalism (http://www
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The Eastern Church vs. the Western Church In the year 1054‚ due to political‚ cultural and religious reasons‚ the Great Schism divided Christianity into the Eastern Church (the Orthodox Church) and the Western Church (the Catholic Church). As a result of the Schism‚ differences increased between the two. The primary differences are the Papal claims of authority and the insertion of the filioque clause into the Nicene Creed (Ware‚ 1963). Since the two were one prior to the Schism‚ there are similarities;
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HRM in Media – Pilots Strike Case in China Eastern Airlines Story Briefing: On March 31‚ 2008‚ 14 flights of China Eastern Airlines Yunnan Branch turned back to Kunming without landing at their destinations. Passengers were told it was due to poor weather conditions. However‚ the weather did not affect flights from other airlines to the same destinations. The real reason was a strike by disgruntled pilots‚ according to the April 2 Guangzhou Daily. China’s airline industry has been
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Book Review: Inventing Eastern Europe: the map of civilization on the mind of the Enlightenment The author of this book‚ Larry Wolff shows through various sources such as accounts from 18th century travellers to eastern Europe‚ maps and atlases from the 18th century‚ how and why Western Europeans created the idea and separation of an Eastern Europe and how they came to view Eastern Europe as a place so uncivilized‚ backward and barbarian that it could not be classified under the same continent
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